jon meacham, are you still awake and with us? >> oh, hey. >> good. jon, where's lunch today? if i were you, i'd go to rotier's or loveless, but your call. >> i'm a longtime rotier's fan. the other is ledbetter's. >> don't forget, rotier's has american cheese and crackers as their lead appetizer. >> ritz. that's the difference. that's the difference. think of the markup on that. >> that's true. >> so is there a nonstop between new york and nashville? >> oh, yeah. >> it's a bus. >> greyhound. >> you get there in, like, 90 minutes, right, meacham? >> are we going to do sports and get it over with in. >> i love it when barnicle takes a geographical view of anything. >> a guy who's out of boston. if only we in the south could have been as progressive as people from south boston on issues of race. >> yes. thank you, mike. >> all right. >> america thanks you. >> we're going to do sports. let's do a little sports. june the 30th, i want to take you back to june the 30th. the a's were 13 games behind the rangers in the a.l. west. yesterday the a's and rangers found themselves, after 16